Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease (Online and Print)

DESCRIPTION

Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease - a volume in the exciting new Practical Echocardiography Series edited by Dr. Catherine M. Otto - provides practical how-to-do-it guidance on echocardiography for an ever-growing number of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease patients. Drs. Mark B. Lewin and Karen Stout offer you definitive, expert instruction with a highly visual, case-based approach that facilitates understanding and equips you to accurately acquire and interpret images while avoiding pitfalls. Access the full text online at www.expertconsult.com along with cases, procedural videos, and abundant, detailed figures and tables that show you how to proceed, step by step, and get the best results.

KEY FEATURES

• Master challenging and advanced techniques including 3-D echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography through a practical, step-by-step format that provides a practical approach to data acquisition and analysis, technical details, pitfalls, and case examples.
• Expand your knowledge and apply the latest findings on congenital cardiovascular abnormalities and adult congenital heart disease
• Reference the information you need quickly thanks to easy-to-follow, templated chapters, with an abundance of figures and tables that facilitate visual learning.
• Access the complete text and illustrations online at www.expertconsult.com plus video clips, additional cases, and much more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Companion Series Congenital Heart Disease Guide: Table of Contents

1. The Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiogram
2. The Fetal Echocardiogram
3. Echo in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
4. Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
5. Shunting Lesions
6. Atrioventricular Canal Defects
7. Conotruncal Lesions
8. Transposition of the Great Arteries
9. Venous Anomalies
10. Single Ventricle Lesions
11. Right Heart Anomalies
12. Left Heart Anomalies
13. Myocardial Pathology
14. Kawasaki Disease: Echocardiographic Assessment
15. Thromboembolic phenomena and vegetations
16. Implications of pediatric renal, endocrine and oncologic disease
17. Post-cardiac transplant echocardiographic assessment

AUTHOR

Mark B. Lewin, Professor and Division Chief, Cardiology; Co-Director, Heart Center; Director, Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Program; Director, Cardiac Echo Laboratory and Karen Stout